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CHRONIC. The candidates for the Élysée spoke very little about the serious climate crisis. Is it their fault or that of the citizens? Covid? of the war ?
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By Peggy Sastre
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VS’is what we mean: the environment in general and the climate in particular were the main absentees from the presidential campaign which is ending. This observation raises several types of questions. The most obvious: why such a distance with the climate issue among ordinary citizens, when a good part of the elites put the subject on the table morning, noon and evening, sometimes to the point of disgust?
Perhaps because these citizens have had to face a pandemic for more than two years. A phenomenon as commonplace in the history of humanity as very badly (if at all) foreseen by this famous elite, in whom the problem of emerging diseases was an exotic concern until the day before yesterday. Perhaps, moreover, because barely brushing the exit of this pande…
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